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Claudio Mecklenburgh

Claudio Mecklenburgh

Nobody loves Reform: What I learnt from door-knocking in Gorton and Denton

Nobody loves Reform: What I learnt from door-knocking in Gorton and Denton

What do people in Gorton and Denton really think about Reform UK and the Green Party?
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University plans to hike rent despite £87 million surplus

University plans to hike rent despite £87 million surplus

Explainer: The SU officers’ counter-proposal to the University’s latest proposed rent hike featuring an interview with Union Affairs officer, Lexie Baynes.
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Student visa ban: Home Office denies students from conflict-affected countries

Student visa ban: Home Office denies students from conflict-affected countries

Nationals of Myanmar, Cameroon, Afghanistan and Sudan are automatically denied student visas based on claims of ‘widespread visa abuse.’
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Far-right harasses Hannah Spencer after speech in Piccadilly gardens

Far-right harasses Hannah Spencer after speech in Piccadilly gardens

Hannah Spencer escorted by police out of Piccadilly Gardens after far-right social media influencers disrupt Together Alliance launch event.
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Leaders call for an Up North Olympics to aid regeneration

Leaders call for an Up North Olympics to aid regeneration

Northern leaders call for the UK’s next Olympic bid to be anchored in the North of England while ensuring the long-tern benefit of communities
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Higher education is for everyone, despite Rachel Reeves’ best efforts

Higher education is for everyone, despite Rachel Reeves’ best efforts

Changes to student loan repayments will force students to evaluate university as a personal financial investment, threatening to make university even more exclusive
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Bus strikes and billionaires: How drivers stood up for Manchester

Bus strikes and billionaires: How drivers stood up for Manchester

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Are poor pay, working conditions and privatisation posing a threat to the network that keeps Manchester alive? Why you should care about the recent bus strikes.
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Liberation or branding: Has identity politics lost its radical roots?

Liberation or branding: Has identity politics lost its radical roots?

How can we stop social justice movements losing their radical edge?
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Landlord’s repeated failure: UN letter to UK government reports

Landlord’s repeated failure: UN letter to UK government reports

One of England’s largest landlords accused of systematically failing to ensure adequate habitability of social housing
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Nottingham University proposes suspension of all music and foreign language courses

Nottingham University proposes suspension of all music and foreign language courses

The University of Nottingham faces backlash after announcing plans to suspend 48 courses, including all music and modern foreign languages programmes, as part of a cost-cutting restructure.
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Trams workers set to strike over driver fatigue

Trams workers set to strike over driver fatigue

Tram drivers are set to strike over the Christmas period in dispute with Metrolink over shift rotas and fatigue
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Our reporters’ reactions to The World Transformed

Our reporters react to The World Transformed 2025
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‘There are many, many more of us than you’: Fallowfield as a microcosm of the immigration debate

‘There are many, many more of us than you’: Fallowfield as a microcosm of the immigration debate

The Mancunion investigates what an asylum protest on Wilmslow Road can reveal about the dissonance within the far-right and the real public opinion on immigration
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Geo-engineering the atmosphere: How can science buy us time in the Climate race?

Geo-engineering the atmosphere: How can science buy us time in the Climate race?

The Mancunion meets with the Univeristy of Manchester’s Professor Hugh Coe to learn about Science’s role in the Climate Crisis
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